Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 15:38:50 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: pgf@American.COM Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: anyone tried TWIN/XPDK Windows emulator? Message-ID: <7114.823217930@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 01 Feb 1996 18:07:59 EST." <199602012307.SAA21682@mozart.american.com>
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The redistribution terms on this pretty much eliminate any chance of it ever being a port (it's free of charge, but still requires execution of a license agreement followed by an email-back of the FTP login info) but some of us have got the source and will get the porting information back to Willow once it's finished. Jordan > hi -- Willow Software (www.willows.com) has a Windows emulator that is > reportedly pretty good, that runs on many UNIX platforms. it's good enough > that one person reported (to me) running sol.exe on an Alpha running Linux, > and another reported running "most of Microsoft Office" under Linux. it > apparently supports serial ports, and the winsock interface -- i don't know > how well. > > unfortunately, FreeBSD is not among their "native" ports -- at least not > among the ones they list. > > they do claim to run under both Linux and SCO. has anyone tried to run it > in non-native-emulation mode on FreeBSD? > > (oh -- btw, for non-commercial use, it's apparently free...) > > paul > --------------------- > paul fox american internet corporation > pgf@american.com (home: pgf@foxharp.boston.ma.us)
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